The doctor doesn’t eye me suspiciously before printing the prescriptions like I expected he would; he just flat-out refuses while staring at the screen. He says he wants a letter from my previous GP. How do I explain that I don’t have a GP? How can I detail my thirteen-year career as a consumer of mental health service – from Canberra to Newcastle, Sydney to Cooma, and back to Canberra.
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MyHealth Memories
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The Tales That Really Mattered: A Discussion of Fanfiction, Queer Identity And Lord of the Rings
“I had just sat through three movies where Sam had followed Frodo across Middle Earth on a perilous journey, and it seemed obvious to me that after everything they’d been through they would get married ... How could the story now veer wildly off course and have Samwise marry a girl from the Shire?”
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Exploring the Social Model of Disability
“Disability” is not a condition but the way society is structured to oppress certain individuals.
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Market-Models Like the NDIS Are Failing People With Disabilities
“If we take a closer look at the NDIS’s criteria, application process, and ongoing rollout, we can examine just how much is going wrong, and why market-based models of disability support are further entrenching oppression.”
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Shut Up And Listen
A statement by the People of Colour Caucus at Queer* Collaborations 2017.
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The Opaque Ceiling
"However, without the ability to single-handedly eliminate the patriarchy and deeply entrenched sexism within Australia, there was absolutely nothing I should have done differently that night."
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Feminist Safe Spaces In An Unsafe World
“These social media safe spaces have become particularly thriving hubs of contemporary feminist action.”